Healthcare

Raipur: In its guidelines to safeguard against coronavirus, WHO has failed to factor on mobile phones as being potential carriers of the virus in healthcare facilities, doctors at AIIMS, Raipur...

New Delhi: A group of women running a tailoring unit in Andhra Pradesh has joined hands with the government in not only fighting COVID-19 but also generating livelihood for themselves at...

New Delhi: The Union Health ministry issued guidelines for RT-PCR pooled sampling for specific citizens to test for coronavirus. A decision has been taken to use one-time RT-PCR based pooled...

Geneva:  Even as clinical and human trials of a vaccine for coronavirus are under way in different countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a grim warning for mankind....

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has directed chief secretaries of all states and Union Territories (UT) to ensure implementation of district-level facility-based surveillance for Covid-19 through sero-survey. A sero-survey...

Mumbai: Covid-19 cases continue to grow in Maharashtra, India’s hotspot. If the news of positive coronavirus cases being detected in Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia, alarmed the country a...

Kolkata: In a recovery of miraculous proportions, Nitaidas Mukherjee beat Covid-19 and returned to his south Kolkata residence after being on a ventilator for 38 days. According to doctors, it’s...

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday that testing capacity for novel coronavirus has been increased to around 95,000 tests per day in India. The minister...

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Saturday issued revised guidelines for discharge of coronavirus patients from hospitals. As per the new policy, if patients classified as very mild and...

New Delhi: In a major boost to India’s fight against Covid-19, the Central government and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on Friday signed a $500 million ‘Covid-19 Emergency Response and...